Gentleman from Indiana

1912. Although his first book was about English romance Newton BoothTarkington winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for The Magnificent Ambersons andAlice Adams came t... » 

1912. Although his first book was about English romance Newton BoothTarkington winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for The Magnificent Ambersons andAlice Adams came to be known for his comical and almost cynical style of theLost Generation that characterized the 1920s. The book begins There is afertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagrarian Eastern travelersglancing from carwindows shudder and return their eyes to interiorupholstery preferring even the swaying caparisons of a Pullman to the monotonywithout. The landscape lies interminably level bleak in winter a desolateplain of mud and snow hot and dusty in summer in its flat lonesomeness mileson miles with not one cool hill slope away from the sun. The persistent touristwho seeks for signs of man in this sad expanse perceives a reckless amount ofrail fence at intervals a large barn and here and there man himselfincurious patient slow looking up from the fields apathetically as theLimited flies by. See other titles by this author available from KessingerPublishing. «